Improvement in cane-cutters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWII OWEN, OF BYROIN, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN GANE -CUT-T ERS,

To all whom it mayconcarn:

Be it knowg that I, EDWIN OWEN, of Byron, in the county of La Porte and State of I1diana, h-ave nvented a new and usefu l Improvement in Machne s for Cuttng Corn ang1 'Brush, &c.; and I do here'by declame that the tbllowing. is {L full, c1ezu*, and exact description of n1y invention reference'being had (0 the (lrawings hereWith cm mected, in which-- Figure 1 1's anjsomerrioal view. geometrical elevation.

Ihe nature of mymprovemenb conssts in two converging knives, which have their ed'ges elevated, zmd the heel ,where they join somewhat higher thm1-the points t-lm nroject for* wzxrd. I

L he constructon is as follows: There is an oblong cmriag6, a, having IIIIIIIGI'S I), like those of a common sled undr it. These runners rest, ordinarly, 011 two axles, 011 which are the Wheels c, 011 which the carriage is borne; or, whn the knives are required to out lgwer down, the wheels and ax1es are removed, zmd che carriage is dmwn on the runners. The right-hand front corner of -the cafriageis cufu ofl' m1gularly a-nd chamfered 'undrneath, so tlmt the knife d, which fs faStened along p'rulle1 with it, has its edge whih projects slant npward. The point also of the knife S set Fig. 2 is a,

lower thzm the heel, ai; Which 1a'st pont there' is another knife, e, thai: diverges faherefrom at an angle of about twenty-five degrees, che tW0 f0r'ming a letter V, 'Ihe point of this knife is also depressed, aud the edge which is towzml the othe1 is elevated similamly. .The la'sf-nmnod 'knife, e, thai; stands out from che side' of the caprage, has standards f, that; extend up from it .and incline -inwamrd. There are also Si1'riilar standards -a1ong theside of. Along thel,

elevated at the he1, cui; up thrugh the stalk,

as will be percev ed. 011 che platform of the ca'rrage there is a, mke, s, thai; slides back -and forth in grooves t, moved by band. The

handle of this rake is jont-ed 'to che upper side' of the head, so that when {che falce is pushed forward che teeth 1ie down, and when it is dra wn back Che teeth rise zmd draw back the grain or ther Substance which s out.

Having thus fully de'scribed'm'y iniprovements zmd their operation, I wish it to be under stood that I do not clam the diverging knv.es as they have been used; nor do I lam attaching oblique knives to a carriage for the san'1e reason; but' W-ht I do claim as my nvntion, a1jd desire 'co secure by Letters Patent;-s-'

;Ihe diyerging knives fastened to a carrage in the m2inner described, with their 'pontsdepressed and their edges elevaced, substantially in the manner 2m 1 for'thepurposes herein s etforth.

EDWILN 0WEN.

Witnesss:

J. H. GODDARD, THOS. GREEN. 

